CANNABIS CULTURE - Marijuana freedom-fighter Marc Emery, a Canadian imprisoned in the USA for his political activism, has been put in solitary confinement for reasons unknown.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Glassblowers from Canada, the USA, and Japan gave live demonstrations of their work while competing at the 2013 Treating Yourself Expo in Toronto.
CANNABIS CULTURE - My good friend, Cannabis Champion and Media Whore Matt Mernagh, looks like he has a long career ahead of him in politics. Matt is the latest to apply for a high-profile position with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's crack political team.
Canada.com has the details:
Best known as the man who temporarily struck down Canada’s ban on marijuana, Mernagh has spent years fighting for the rights of medical cannabis users.
CANNABIS CULTURE - A BC Supreme Court Justice ruling Friday allows designated medical marijuana growers in BC to produce and sell cannabis extracts to their patients.
A bill that would set up provisions for growing industrial hemp in the Golden State passed the state Senate Tuesday on a unanimous vote. It now heads to the state Assembly.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Canada's premier marijuana trade show returned to the gigantic Metro Toronto Convention Centre for it's fourth year, looking slicker than ever and impressing crowds, vendors and activists alike.
After a malfunctioning reader board threw its future into question, a bill that would create a legal medical marijuana dispensary system in Nevada passed the Assembly in a nearly party-line vote.
The owner of the Takoma Wellness Center, former Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn, told The Huffington Post in May that he hoped his D.C. medical marijuana dispensary would open to customers after Memorial Day weekend.
The Texas legislature last week approved a bill that would require some applicants for unemployment benefits to undergo drug testing, but another bill that would have required drug testing for some welfare applicants (Senate Bill 11) died in the House after Democrats managed to block it from coming to a vote.